Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Ville Platte, LA 70586. It is one of 30 churches in Ville Platte, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.

Ville Platte, LA, 70586

Shares a ministry location with Disciples Baptist Church.

Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.

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The community around Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 55.1% (37.2–73.1%)
  • Obesity: 52.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 45.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 37.4% (24.8–50.0%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 31.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.5%
  • Diabetes: 24.9%
  • Transportation Barriers: 22.6%
  • Unemployment: 15.1% (7.4–22.7%)
  • Social Isolation: 38.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
  • Depression: 26.8%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (6.3–18.8%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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